HIST 2P66 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Deng Xiaoping, Peng Dehuai, Imperial Japanese Army
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The second sino-japanese war & chinese civil war. The second sino-japanese war occurred during the 1930s. Means they believed asia is a singular territory, singular identity. East asian people working together to build peace and create co-prosperity under the japanese leadership japan needed natural resources, other nations should be willing to give japan what they needed. Japan took over in less than half a year. In the spring of the next year they established . Japan established garrison close to capital of china (beijing) Knew he could not win if war broke out. Did not want the japanese to become violent if they fought back. Must deal with them before we deal with the japanese. But he refused to change his policy. Eventually he was kidnapped in a coup d"etat. A military officer who initially chose not to resist the japanese and thus lost his homeland; later on was asked by chiang to fight communists in northwest china.
